A team led by BBN Technologies has been awarded $2.8 million by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop a system that will enable those in battlefield operations to access historical and real-time data regardless of their networked device and available bandwidth. Boeing, the Institute for Human Machine Cognition and Vanderbilt University round out the team.

The prototype system under development, called Quality of Service Enabled Dissemination, or QED, will boast quality-of-service and disruption tolerance capabilities, according to BBN. The system might enable, for example, those on the front line faster access to bandwidth hungry applications such as annotated pictures or maps.

The project ties in with the Joint Vision 2010   effort to put information into the hands of military personnel efficiently.

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